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The events of this film take place in southern Sweden over 14 days.

SVT South presents

-Congratulations. -Thanks.

I'm sorry if we're disturbing you, but this can't wait.

It won't take long.

Last Monday night, you had a visitor... just after midnight.

-A visitor? -A nurse.

That's strange, this being a hospital and all.

Yes, but we don't think this person worked here.

The next night she came again, about two, half past two-

-but this time she also punched one of the midwives.

Yes, I heard something about that.

-No one came to visit me. -I see.

Anyway I was asleep.

-So how was it having a baby here? -Better than at home in Lund.

-It's a much bigger hospital here. -Yes, and it's much quieter here.

-My daughter was born here too. -Was she?

-What happened to your cheek? -I fell.

I was holding a glass in my hand, and I cut myself on a shard.

Do you know a man named Eugen Blomberg?

-Yes. -You do? -Yes.

Do you know that he's dead?

Yes. He drowned in a lake, didn't he?

-How do you know that? -They said it on TV.

-How did you know him? -I just did.

-Who is the child's father? -I have no contact with the father.

-What's his name then? -You can leave now.

You know if you don't answer we will take you to the station for a formal interrogation.

-Do you understand what I mean? -I'm not an idiot.

In that case we'll be back.

Days 8-12

The Fifth Woman

Starring Rolf Lassg�rd as Kurt Wallander

Anki Liden as Yvonne Ander

Marie Richardson as Maja Thysell

Christer Fant as Svedberg

Kerstin Andersson as Lisa Holgersson Lars Melin as Martinsson

Screenplay by Klas Abrahamsson Birger Larsen

Based on the novel by Henning Mankell

Production Design by Niels Sejer

Music by Frans Bak

Editing by Jacob Thuesen Pernille Bech Christensen

Cinematography by Jacob Viit Kusk Eric Kress

-Damn, she was lying. -Of course.

That was complete bullshit about the cut.

No, but it's not very likely that she killed him.

-No, but she knows something. -[MISSING]

Directed by Birger Larsen

-Now we have her. -Who, K.A.?

-Yes. -She knows the person we're after.

We're close now. If we keep at it maybe we'll prevent more murders.

Damn, not again!

-What have we got here? -A man found in the road, unconscious.

-We're taking him to room 11. -Will he live?

-Is he going to make it? -What's going on in this town?

-Would he leave someone alive? -[MISSING]

Do you think that our murderer would let someone survive?

Some other bastard did this.

-Hello! -Do you think we could speak to him?

Hello!

-What's happened? -Male, unidentified... found in the road.

"A burglar neutralised by the Night Watchers"

Svedberg, Martinsson!

Time to wake up!

You know what to do.

Hello Eskil, we have some questions. We're taking you down to the station...

-Do you have a warrant. -What's going on?

A group that calls itself the Night Watchers-

-has almost beaten a man to death.

All he did was take a wrong turn and go to a house for help.

-But is he going to survive? -We don't know that yet.

As if that isn't bad enough-

-it seems that people have been forming organised gangs in this area.

What do the police think about this?

When the people take the law into their own hands, this is the result. Thanks.

-Why didn't you just hold him and call us instead? -What, the police? What would you do?

Hell. Can I leave you to it now?

-Sure. Go home to your family. -Thanks.

-And you had the right to punish him? -He was snooping around!

-That's for snooping round here! -Give it to him!

-How do you know that? -He was trying doors.

What the hell are we supposed to think?

Someone's got to show that bloody lot that enough is enough.

We've had enough, and we're not going to take it any more.

What would you have done?

What shall I do with the press and TV waiting outside?

Call them in. For once I'm looking forward to meeting them.

Into their own hands... By acting as we have...

Wallander!

Fast and decisively we the police-

-want to send a clear signal to the so-called "Night Watchers".

The police will not allow anyone to take the law into their own hands.

-Come in. -Hey.

Maja Thysell, Ystad Police. You've met Kurt before.

Hi, I'm just about to leave.

Oi! Isn't he small. It's a boy, isn't it? -Yeah.

-Is the father picking you up? -No, my mother is.

-And the father? -My father is dead.

I was talking about the boy's father.

I'm not seeing him any more, I've already told you that.

-What is the name of the child's father? -I don't want to talk about it.

-Why not? -That's my business.

As you know, we are investigating Eugen Blomberg.

We know you two had an affair.

-That's been over for a long time. -But you two were seeing each other?

For four years.

Must have been hard keeping it secret, what with him being married?

He said he would get a divorce, but when I realised he was lying-

-I left him.

-Did you ever see him after that? -No. -Never? -No.

I see, we have found letters that you wrote to him a month ago.

He wrote, I replied. He wanted us to get together again, but I didn't want to.

-Because you were seeing someone else? -Because I was expecting a baby.

You say in the letters that Eugen Blomberg is the father.

-That must be a misunderstanding. -Why is that? -[MISSING]

And you're not willing to tell us the father's name?

No, is that all?

Yes.

We should call Birch in Lund and arrange for surveillance on her.

Where are you off to?

My father's being discharged today, and I promised to drive him home.

OK, see you later.

Maja, I wanted to tell you that I think that you're a damn good policewoman.

Yes, and you're not so bad yourself.

Excuse me.

Hello, what's going on in here?

-We're from the police. -Good job, I see.

Come on.

-We'd better get our act together. - I'm back here in an hour

Can you get everyone together to run over things?

-Should I wait for you? -Unless you're {not} afraid to meet my father.

-Should I be? -Yes, a little.

OK, then I'll wait.

Stille, get the crash cart over here.

-Hi. -Hey. -Is he ready? -What are you doing?

The old man was supposed to be discharged today.

Can you sit down for just five minutes? Sit down please.

Get clear of the bed, I'm going to fire.

Asystole, 1 milligram adrenaline.

1 milligram given.

-1 milligram atropine. -1 milligram given.

-[MISSING] -No pulse.

-It's over, time to stop. -I was just here yesterday.

I was just here yesterday!

What the hell has happened?

No, No!

Good morning.

I just want to say that I am terribly sorry, we can handle... Kurt!

So we have three murders.

Holger Eriksson has been described by several witnesses as a harsh and brutal-

-almost sadistic person. At his home we found a photo album-

-from which a photograph had been removed. But there was a name under it-

-of a woman that Martinsson has managed to identify.

Her name is Krista Haberman, a Polish citizen-

-who came to Sweden in 1962 as a political refugee-

-settled in Malm�, reported missing in May 1969 and was never found.

It was presumed she went back to Poland and disappeared like so many other dissidents.

I've sent a missing persons report to Interpol but I don't think-

-anything will come of it. Because I don't think she went anywhere.

-Why is that? -I found her medical records in Malm�. She had an accident before she disappeared.

She "slipped on the stairs while carrying a kitchen knife"-

-"in her right hand" and fell onto it.

The knife struck a couple of centimeters from the heart. It's pure luck she didn't die.

We know from the dates that she and Holger Eriksson-

-were seeing each other around that time.

We have a woman impaled with a knife, and thirty years later-

-her boyfriend turns up impaled on bamboo stakes in a ditch.

The day after we find G�sta Runfeldt.

We learned from his son that he hit and beat-

-his wife many times, so severely that she required medical treatment.

The son also says that it was G�sta Runfeldt who hanged-

or at least drove his wife to hang herself at the end of the 1970's.

There are also parallels between the way the wife died-

-and how we found him. Hanging between two trees,-

-strangled in a forest outside Marsvinsholm.

-Where was the son then? -Out on maneuvers the whole week.

-And the flower shop assistant? -Vanja Andersson.

We haven't found anything that ties her to the other victims.

Besides she looks too weak. It's not likely she's capable of doing it.

We can ignore her for the time being.

Then we have Eugen Blomberg, who we found the day before yesterday.

Drowned in a sack with stones sewn in to match his weight.

When we question his wife... she is so completely unmoved and cold-

-she tells us straight out that she is not mourning for her husband at all.

There are also parallels here to the way Eugen Blomberg was murdered.

He liked using a weapon most of all and his bath-tub trick of course.

-That was a bit of a speciality of his. -What's the bath-tub trick?

He would hold my head under water for several minutes. Do you know how that feels?

You think you're going to explode, convinced that you're going to die.

-Is it her? -She would have done it earlier.

Besides, she was working on the night of the murder. Her colleagues have confirmed it.

We have found some letters that link another woman to Eugen Blomberg.

Katarina Taxell. She has just given birth to a child here in Ystad.

She refuses to say who the father is, but we can assume that it's Eugen Blomberg.

He probably battered her too.

We also suspect that Katarina Taxell was visited at least twice.

By a woman on the maternity ward disguised as a nurse.

We must find this woman.

Yes, but can you come here?

I've got him here, you must come now.

Has anyone got any ideas so far?

Kurt, first of all, I want to pass on condolences on behalf of all of us.

Thanks.

And I fully understand if you are not up to continuing working right now.

Thanks, but right now I need to do something else besides think about my father.

-Yes, I understand but... -I sat with my father all night and all day yesterday-

-and now I intend to work! Unless there is someone who has doubts-

-about my way of carrying out the investigation, I intend to carry on with it. {This could be better}

The murders are carried out in such a way as to say something about the victims.

All three men had subjected the women in their lives to serious abuse-

-and all were murdered by a form of premeditated male violence.

As if they had to know what it was like to have their own hands on their own bodies. {This could be better}

-Everything quiet? -Yeah.

-Excuse me, do you have a light? -Certainly.

-Thanks. -The pleasure's mine.

The motive is therefore revenge.

But the complication is that she does not appear to be avenging herself.

Something must have happened to her.

Why is this person disguised as a nurse, at night time?

She had a powerful punch. Should we consider the possibility that this person could be a man?

There is nothing to link Holger Eriksson to the Polish woman-

-other than a photo that has gone missing.

-??? She probably left on a boat. ??? -She's dead. Holger Eriksson killed her.

We'll know what happened to Krista Habermann sooner or later.

How will we find out?

Maybe the murderer knows? Perhaps she can tell us what Holger Eriksson-

-has done with the body, whether he buried it or got rid of it some other way.

-Maybe there's more than one? -I find that hard to imagine.

How did she come into contact with the other women?

None of the men were convicted, but it could be that they were reported.

-Then could it be someone with the police? -Check up on that.

What if she's a nurse? We only know that she doesn't work in Ystad.

When did these women come in for treatment and who was on duty at the time?

And other workplaces dominated by women. Crisis groups...

OK. We're looking for a lone woman, and I'm certain that Katarina Taxell-

-knows who she is. So I'll go to Lund to ask her some serious questions.

Everything quiet? -Yeah. -Is she in?

She's not gone out, at any rate.

Hello!

Hello!

Hello!

-She was just here. -There's a back door here!

Get the others.

Shhh... Hear that?

There.

Here, here!

-No one has come out of the front. Damn it! Damn it!

How can you sit here the whole damn night and gossip like two old women!

Get your hands out of your pockets!

I don't understand how anyone can be so damn sloppy?

Why don't you just go home and rest a little and look after Linda?

A secret compartment.

A train timetable.

Why would someone hide something like that in a secret compartment?

We have someone here that I'm sure you'll want to speak to.

Hey, was it you who saw the car?

I saw you on TV. It was you who fixed those Night Watchers.

Yes, that was me, but what make of car was it? Huh?

-You can ask all the questions you like, but you're not going to get any answers. -What do you mean?

-Put away decent people and stick up for scum. You can go to hell. -[MISSING]

Did you see who the driver was!?

Saab 900, probably. Blue maybe. He wasn't so sure about the color.

-There's a lot like that. -Yeah, yours for one.

-[MISSING] -He's certain the driver was a man.

Hello. Can you hold on for a moment?

-How does he know that? He didn't see anything. -By the way the car roared off.

He says he knows plenty of women who drive fast and recklessly-

-but none who tear off like that. That's not something I've seen either. -Yes.

A whole crowd had gathered round watching, but no-one helped her.

Not a single one.

They beat her until she fell. Then they carried on kicking and spitting.

It seems one of the boys was a son of one of the Night Watchers we arrested.

They're the ones people sympathise with Kurt, not us.

No... Hey.

Hey.

Were they nasty to you?

She's scared, and so am I.

Well, I've got to get back. Bye-bye, Therese.

Bye.

Kurt, why did you become a policeman?

Because I wanted to keep law and order, because...

No, I don't remember either.

There must be a way of marking off the area.

Yes, but we're talking about a body that has been buried for over thirty years.

You gave me an idea, and as you can't possibly do everything yourself...

Don't take it as criticism of your work, but we had to carry on.

Particularly in view of the witness in Lund who managed to get away.

So I've organised the search for Krista Haberman's remains.

Has anything been changed on this land over the years?

Sure. The subsidies change so you change what you sow.

-How was Martinsson? -He says he wants to give up the job.

I know what he means.

Go to Therese's school with Svedberg. Show them that we take it seriously.

OK.

It's terrible, but can we get back to Holger Eriksson.

Yes, he was a right bastard.

Charged an exorbitant rent on the land.

He would rather let it go to seed than be beaten down.

I remember one time Bo Olsson and me cycled here.

Just wanted to have a look, ask to try it out. Do you know what Eriksson did?

Threw stones at us before we even got onto his land.

You know. Two young lads who just wanted to try out an excavator.

Excavator?

He hired it to build up that mound there under the tower.

My dad just shook his head when he heard about that.

-Why was that? -What bloody use does it serve?

If he wanted a higher tower, he only had to add some planks.

Wait a minute, do you remember when this was?

I was still at school. Round about the end of the sixties.

-Dug it himself. -That's where we'll dig then.

You'll be rewarded for your help. I can't say any more at this stage.

-What do you believe? -Believing is for church.

What I do [I]know[/I] is that we've managed to lift some prints from the bamboo stakes.

The same prints that we found on a cigarette butt-

-found near the sack with Eugen Blomberg. -Yes, and?

And, if it hadn't been hand-rolled, we never would have got it.

I've checked it against the register but there weren't any matches.

If nothing else, we have something that links the same person to two of the murders.

-What do you think about this? -What do I think? -Yes, about starting this dig?

You're the person heading this investigation, aren't you?

The Polish woman may well be here somewhere, so we'd best start digging.

We could make the search more effective if we concentrated-

-on a smaller area.

-Should we ask for leads from the public? -What would we ask for?

A tall woman, thirty to fifty years old.

Fits a hell of a lot of people.

-She smokes. -Yeah, and?

Well, it's not so common any more. Even fewer roll their own.

That's not enough to go on for police sketches and nationwide alerts.

No.

Hey, how are you?

Well...

You didn't say anything to the others? Before, at one of our meetings?

-Don't you trust me? -Yes, I trust you.

But the others are not ready like you, not yet. You must understand that.

I'm not an idiot.

It's been obvious for a couple of years now.

Kalle and I were busy tidying up down in the cellar one Sunday-

-and that's when we realised that all we were was a couple of...

-Workmates. -Exactly.

I'll drive.

We sat down and talked all night.

No beating about the bush, being honest, terribly nice about it.

And we agreed that unless something happened like...

Yeah, put the fun back in it or the spark...

We would stop living together-

-just for the sake of it when Jonas and Henrik left home.

-What's going on now? -Your car, it's filthy.

Shut the window. It's getting wet in here.

-We're here now. -Excuse me, isn't this your stop?

-Already here? -Yes, tired?

It's the early mornings. You get used to it when you commute.

What did you talk about?

We talked about everything that people usually talk about.

Double!

It was nice that you managed to get to Rome after all.

I just can't get round the fact that...

What would you say if I said I was going to join the police?

I would say... good luck to you.

I hope you're not coming to try and persuade me to come back again.

No, just to say that I've sent Maja and Svedberg to Therese's school.

I know, they were here an hour ago. Thought it went down well.

Even with the lads who beat her up. They didn't seem to know-

-what they were doing.

No.

And what about you?

We've been trying to find Katarina Taxell all day.

She's still missing. I think we've visited fifteen-

-old workplaces and spoken with over forty people who worked with her,

-boyfriends, former friends...

We've gone through her whole circle of friends going back ten years.

Some of them had forgotten her.

There's maybe one, called Margareta Nystedt.

They worked together on the Stockholm train, in the dining car.

-Coffee? -Yes, please.

She said they were seeing each other outside work but that they stopped-

-because Katarina Taxell changed all of a sudden.

I had been off sick one week-

-then when I came back, it was like I hardly recognised her.

She started to wonder off whenever she got the chance.

-On the train? -On the train, yes.

Where do you wonder off to on a train?

-No idea. -Where do you think she was going?

-Maybe she was seeing someone? -A passenger?

-Or someone who worked on the train? -Who could that have been?

No idea. A lot of people work on a train.

We see each other of course and chat.

But not everyone hangs out in the dining car where we are.

When roughly would that have been?

It was probably a couple of years ago. I was sick so the exact days-

-are bound to be on record at work somewhere.

Was that the same time she was together with Eugen Blomberg?

And the timetable we found in her house should be valid for the same year.

Yes, so the train is a meeting place. You meet lots of people on the train.

We were thinking that the person we were looking for was a policewoman or a nurse-

-but what if they were a conductor, or hostess whatever they're called these days...

They might also have met the women we're investigating.

We thought that was a possibility worth investigating too.

You are asking me to produce lists of everyone who was working at the same time-

-as a Katarina Taxell. One week a long time ago...

when another employee called Margareta Nystr�m was on sick leave.

-Margareta Nystedt! OK. -Am I on Candid Camera? -[MISSING]

-It will take some weeks. -I need the information today.

That's impossible. You have to understand that they are completely different operations.

So what happened?

Well, after some minor "communications problems"-

-with the railway's personnel department.

OK, I'll just ring the national police commissioner-

-who'll ring your director-general, and then we'll see what happens!

-I can give it a try tomorrow. -You've got four hours!

OK.

The list is expected at the station any moment. I hope it's not too long.

I heard you had started digging for the Polish woman on Holger Eriksson's land.

Yeah, but we haven't found anything.

-So far, anyway. -And what about you? After your father...

I don't know how you manage to work so much.

It's the other way round.

I'm not managing to work less. Wallander here.

We'll have to hear what forensics has to say before we make a public statement.

-What do you think? -I think it's a shin-bone.

Nice to have you back.

I'm not back. I came along out of pure curiosity. Thanks anyway.

-Hi. Nice to see you again. -Welcome back.

I'm not back. I just followed Kurt to come and say hello.

Is that the list?

More names than we thought, but we've narrowed it down to 11.

And there I was expecting dinner with a good friend tonight.

Too bad. It'll have to wait. How will we split it?

-See you. -Bye.

That makes three each and two more for whoever finishes first.

I'll take these. I'm not back though.

I'm just taking them to get things done a bit quicker.

Sorry, excuse me. Excuse me.

Dinners like this are the best, aren't they?

What's lobster and champagne when you've got dry sandwiches and lukewarm coffee?

What's candlelight when you've got fluorescent lights?

-You got any left? -Can I come in? I think I've got something.

Yvonne Ander, 51 years old. Lives here in Ystad, single, no kids-

-trained first as a nurse, did that for almost 20 years-

-then retrained as a train conductor in the early 80s.

-What shall we ask? -Routine stuff.

I haven't got mine on me.

What do we do if no-one's in?

-You'd better have one of these. -We can't go in until the prosecutor...

Hello! Hello!

-Rolls her own! -Luke-warm.

Stay here.

-Fuck! You gave me a fright. -Sorry.

Skeleton key.

Where is the bloody thing?

OK, all clear.

Bingo.

-There are clothes belonging to an adult woman and a baby in the bedroom. -[MISSING]

Look at this.

Skip a few pages.

There.

-What does it mean? -We suppose it's the next victim.

-A timetable. -That's today's date.

-Just over an hour. -It takes 45 minutes just to Lund.

-Police! -Come in, shut the door.

-[MISSING] -Where is Yvonne Ander? -At work, I expect. -[MISSING]

-Where have you been? -Out walking.

-I've just managed to get him to sleep then you frighten the life out of him. -[MISSING]

Maja, you stay here. Call Nyberg. Get him to go over the house.

-I'm coming with you. -You stay here.

If we're right, it'll be in our favour to have a woman catch her.

-You go, I'll stay. Take this. -What the hell are you going to do to her!?

Yvonne Ander starts her shift at 07.12, and boards in Lund.

-I don't understand what she's up to. Is she going to push someone in front of the train? -[MISSING]

Shouldn't we get hold of our colleagues in Lund?

No, I don't want a load of flashing lights and sirens to scare her away. [MISSING]

Many thanks. Tore Grund�n was on file.

He had an accident a few years ago.

He reversed over his partner. Said that he hadn't seen her.

His explanation for driving over her head twice was that-

-he had heard a thud and was so surprised-

-that he had gone into first and driven back into the garage without thinking.

What sort of a bastard is it whose life we're trying to save?

Time to go.

-See you. -[MISSING]

-Hi, you're late today? -Yes. Is this where the conductor gets on?

So we could have travelled free as far as J�nk�ping.

You take this one, I'll take the next!

So you work two days there and three here in Lund?

I never imagined I would end up commuting so far every day.

-You could always move there. -Do I look like a Presbyterian?

-Do you want a hand with that? -Yes, thanks.

It goes there, right at the front. It's off at N�ssj�.

Excuse me!

Hey, what do you think you're doing!?

Martinsson! Martinsson. There!

-There, right at the front! -I can't hear you!

At the front, there!

Stop!

No!

Police!

-I didn't see she had a gun. -No, don't move her!

I'm a doctor. The one over there will be fine.

It can't be too serious... it doesn't feel so bad.

Martinsson!

You see to the idiot who shot her.

You're in the hospital. It's all right. Kurt, listen to what I'm saying...

We found you on the embankment. You'd been drugged.

-Yvonne Ander? -I'm afraid we lost her.

The Final Days

The Fifth Woman

Starring Rolf Lassg�rd as Kurt Wallander

Anki Liden as Yvonne Ander

Marie Richardson as Maja Thysell

Christer Fant as Svedberg

Kerstin Andersson as Lisa Holgersson Lars Melin as Martinsson

Screenplay by Klas Abrahamsson Birger Larsen

Based on the novel by Henning Mankell

Production Design by Niels Sejer

Music by Frans Bak

Editing by Jacob Thuesen Pernille Bech Christensen

Cinematography by Jacob Viit Kusk Eric Kress

Produced by Tommy Starck

Directed by Birger Larsen

Everything's in hand Kurt. And you need to rest...

-It doesn't help anything if you're exhausted. -[MISSING]

Maja... Maja...

-I must ask you to leave the room. -OK!

-We are her colleagues, we've... -I understand, but her husband is here.

How is she?

She was lucky she got help on the platform.

My colleague Tore Grund�n happened to be on the spot.

-How bad is it? -Bad!

So Yvonne Ander is... still on the loose.

We'll get her soon. Just to be sure we're calling everyone on her list.

Do you know if she's still armed?

-Hi. -I can't get the washer going.

-Have you followed the instructions? -To the letter.

I'll come and give you a hand outside. Ask if I can ring back.

He'll ring you back, who shall I say rang? The police...

What's he been up to? I'll get him to ring you back.

End up, down into the tank, then you...

Then you suck it up...

-What a fucking cock-up. -It wasn't your fault.

-But it was my gun. -It was my gun... that I lent you.

Cut it out with this bullshit about whose fault it was. It's bad enough as it is.

What the hell are you doing?

-Packing up my stuff... -She's still fucking out there!

Your fucking number can be up any time or it's someone else turn!

It's all my fault what happened to Maja and you know that.

Do you work here?

No, I'm just standing in down in the maternity ward, but I thought I'd visit Maja.

-She was admitted earlier today, she'd been shot. -The policewoman.

She can't have visitors.

-She's married to my brother. -He's already been.

I know. I thought I could wait for him here, maybe?

Go in.

-You knew she was dangerous, didn't you? -Not to me.

You knew she was going to kill Eugen.

You even gave the green light.

-You can get prison for that. -I don't know where she is.

What do you think your son will say when he grows up-

-and finds out what happened to his Dad?

At least he'll grow up.

Hello. Excuse me, can someone tell me how she's doing!?

Maja.

Maja.

Hello, so you're up and about again?

That was me you were trying to strangle this morning.

I 'm really sorry. I thought you were someone else.

The woman we're looking for disguised herself as a nurse.

-and when I saw you with the needle... -I've known worse.

-Lovely flowers, but I'm afraid I'll have to take them out. -I didn't bring any flowers.

Someone else must have been in here. There's been nobody here for a quarter of an hour.

But it's just two minutes since I saw you in the corridor and called after you.

No, that must have been my colleague, a small, dark, older woman.

-No, I came straight from the cafeteria. -"Sorry!"

Shit!

What's going on?

-She'll ring back later. -What the hell do you think you're doing!

-Can I speak to Svedberg? -Stop him, he's taken my phone!

Hello Svedberg, I'm in Lund...

??? I'm police, tell them where I am! ???

Hello!

Hello, stop, get down on the floor. Police! Stop!

It's OK, it's OK, I'm police. Yvonne Ander!

-How is she? -More stable now. {This could be better}

Even if she lives no-one knows how extensive the damage is.

I thought it was mild concussion?

Oh, sorry, I'm talking about Maja, you meant Yvonne Ander.

Compared to Maja, our serial killer is in top form.

She needs rest for a couple of days then she can be discharged.

-How is she? -She's sleeping, she's still dazed...

You'll have to wake her up so we can talk to her.

She must not be unduly stressed... She needs rest.

Kurt, go home and sleep. We've got her now-

-and we've got loads of time.

Annika! You sick fucking bitch!

Annika!

-Hi. -Hey.

-Is that your colleague in there? -Yes.

Tore Grund�n, I'm a doctor. I helped her out on the platform.

I thought I would see how she was doing.

They say she wouldn't have made it if you hadn't been passing by.

We can't know that, but still it was lucky I was there.

What happened?

The woman we were chasing has killed several men who had been battering-

-and killing their wives and girlfriends.

For some reason she had chosen you as her next victim.

You've got no idea why she picked on you?

No, not the foggiest.

She saved your life. I think you ought to know that.

??? Can't we put things further away to make place. There's so much. ???

??? It's full up out here. ???

How's she doing, that colleague of yours?

She'll live.

-She's the one who, that you... -What will we do with all these paints?

Dad, Dennis. Dennis, my father.

Hey.

Nice to meet you. Pity that it's-

-under such circumstances.

What circumstances?

-The funeral. -Oh, yeah.

Linda asked me to help sort out flowers, make coffee, a bit of everything.

-I see. -If that's all right, of course?

-Of course it is. -Yes.

Shall we go inside?

-Detective Chief Inspector Wallander... -I'm sorry for what happened.

I'm really sorry.

Let's talk about the three murders you've committed instead.

If you want a lawyer now, just...

OK. So perhaps you can tell me how you committed these crimes.

-How you planned them. And why you chose those three men in particular. -[MISSING]

Do you want a cigarette? {Can you get hold of a cigarette?}

Let's begin with Holger Eriksson...

??? Well? ???

-[MISSING] -Has she started talking?

No, but we've got time on our side...

Maybe not. One of the men on her list has disappeared.

G�sta Runfeldt was missing for several days before we found him.

Where are you holding him? [MISSING]

What the hell is it with you! Answer!

Thomas Andersson from Helsingborg has been missing for several days. [MISSING]

He's alive. Up to now. {At the moment.}

So where is he?

A colleague of his rang. Seems like he waited more than a day-

-because he thought we were after Andersson. [MISSING]

When he didn't turn up for work in the morning, he got worried.

-So, has she confessed? -Indirectly.

Is she making fun of us? Taking a chance now that someone from the list has gone missing. {Taking advantage?}

Of course she bloody is.

-How long can you live without liquid? -Two or three days at most.

-Unless he's got a drip like the others. -But we don't know that.

All she does is sit there and sneer.

So what do you suggest?

According to the records she's got no other house, no living relatives-

-except a mother who doesn't appear to have an address.

She may even be dead. But here's something odd...

We found this letter in your house. Can you leave the room a moment?

It's from an Algerian woman. A policewoman it would appear...

She says that your mother was murdered there.

We've checked up with the Foreign Office, but they don't seem to have any details.

Can you explain that?

-Read the letter and you'll understand. -I would prefer if you told me.

My mother liked to travel all over-

-she came to Algeria about a year and a half ago.

One night she was just looking for a hotel as usual-

-and stopped at a convent to ask the way.

It was a Catholic convent run by French nuns.

There was no hotel nearby, but Mum was welcome to stay over-

-and she did. Not just one night, but for several months-

-until fate, or God if you prefer, sent four men there-

-who wanted to drive every foreigner they could out of their country.

They seem to have seen it as a holy mission-

-because they decided to start by murdering the four nuns.

When they got there they found one more woman in the convent.

One woman more or less they didn't care-

-which only made it worse for the police.

Four French citizens was already bad enough-

-so the fifth woman was one problem too many for them.

So one of the police was instructed to erase all trace of my mother.

But she disobeyed her orders, and wrote a letter telling me what happened.

So that's how I found out how a foreigner in a foreign country-

-murdered my mother.

Can you tell me about your father? We've looked but we can't find anything.

There's a man in Algeria who murdered my mother.

Why don't you look for him instead?

-What did she say? -Not a lot.

Oh yes, the letter... Her mother was murdered in Algeria.

What bloody use is that to us? We need to have more men searching.

The whole southern Sweden police force is out there looking.

The next step would be to call in the army. But then we have to know where to look.

-And at this moment in time we know nothing. -Where are you off to?

Helsingborg. To check out Thomas Andersson's place.

So we know he is married... or was in any case.

We'll have to try and find her.

Somehow or other.

It doesn't look like anyone's been here for a while.

Do you think we should get Nyberg and company to go over the place?

Sure.

What the hell... Svedberg! Come here for Christ's sake!

What sort of a bastard are we really trying to save?

As soon as we get our hands on him he'll have to answer for this.

-Yes, it's the same story again. -What?

If Thomas Andersson used to lock up his wife, maybe-

-that's what Yvonne Ander thought too?

Sitting there, locked up... As soon as she's on her feet get her down to Ystad.

Maybe she knows something or maybe she suspects something.

-Then we'll get Yvonne Ander down to the station. -But the doctors says...

I don't give a damn what the doctors say, she's coming to Ystad, now!

How's it going? Have you spoken to Nyberg?

-The bone we found comes from a calf. -So we haven't found Krista Haberman?

It doesn't look like it.

Martinsson called and asked me to take over some of his stuff.

So I checked his email and his mail.

Krista Haberman is alive, and living in Holland.

-Maybe this is our chance. -That's what I was thinking too.

-Sort that out quick. -It may not be cheap.

-I don't give a damn. Talk with Lisa. -OK.

Why did Eugen Blomberg beat up his wife and Katarina Taxell?

-Why did G�sta Runfeldt hit his wife? -Are you married?

-Why did Holger Eriksson murder Krista Haberman? -[MISSING]

It's me who's asking the questions here! Why did...

If you give me an honest answer to three of my questions, I promise you an answer.

-I'm the one asking the questions. -Have you ever hit a woman?

Yes, once, my ex-wife, I slapped her. That was one question.

Now it's my turn. Where is Thomas Andersson?

You know that is the only question I have no intention of answering.

-You and Katarina Taxell met when you worked on the same train. -Yeah.

How did you meet G�sta Runfeldt's wife?

At the hospital in Malm� in the mid seventies.

She started off with the usual excuses at first-

-then she started to talk after a few days.

They had been to Germany on holiday and she had taken a wrong turning.

I almost got her to go to the police.

A few years later I saw it in the obituaries.

It didn't take much to work out what had happened.

What about Krista Haberman?

Same story, a few years ago she turned up in emergencies-

-black and blue and with a stab wound.

She protected Holger Eriksson. She insisted that-

-it had been an accident, that she had tripped with a knife in her hand-

-and had managed to get bruises all over her body with it.

She was just like so many others I met.

Broken and shattered. Either afraid or so...

Or so full of self-loathing that they lie to protect their men.

Why did you hit your wife?

-I don't remember... -I don't accept your answer.

There was an argument... She was better with words than me and I felt powerless-

-and so I... Why did you quit your job with the hospital?

I had had enough, I couldn't take it any more, so I retrained as a conductor-

-it's a good job, I still really like it a lot.

It gave me time to build up quite an impressive network.

I tried to help as many as possible.

You kept Eugen Blomberg and G�sta Runfeldt locked up-

-before you killed them. Why?

I wanted them to understand what was happening. They needed to know.

But Holger Eriksson didn't?

I was a little anxious, keen to get going.

Anyway I managed to show him a photo so he certainly knew.

-So you were there? -I was sitting up in the tower.

You didn't protect the women. Nobody punished the men, so I did.

And you are sure that the three of them were guilty?

The slightest doubt and I would have let them be.

I left you alone behind the train. Before I knew that you beat your wife.

A single slap, just once, is hardly assault and battery for Christ's sake?

And what about you, were you beaten?

Your father. Your father hit your mother, didn't he?

Now it's my turn to ask my third and final question.

-Will you ever hit a woman again? -No.

-How do you know? -Because I do.

-You answered the first two honestly but you lied on the third. -[MISSING]

-It's not for me, it's for yourself. -Where is Thomas Andersson?

Is he still alive?

How long have you been married, you and Thomas?

-Almost six years. -No kids?

No.

Give us a few more minutes.

Six years, that's a long time. How's it been?

Good, very good.

As you are aware we have reason to believe that it wasn't always so good.

Sometimes we argue like everyone does.

For Christ's sake, you were locked up in a cupboard, weren't you? [MISSING]

-How many times do I have to tell you, the door shut behind me? -[MISSING]

Who locked you in!?

Just leave me alone.

-Do you want anything? -No.

Do you have any idea where Thomas might be?

No.

What shall we do? Send her home?

No.

I've got an idea.

- Hi, Annika, how are you? -Hello.

Where is he?

Annika, you said it yourself.

I can change my mind, can't I? I want to know where he is.

Kurt...

Where the hell is he?

Where is he?

Where is he, what have you done with him?

-Get that woman out! -No!

No, I want to know where he is. I've got to see him!

What if she had taken her hostage in there, Kurt?

Do you think we are just doing it for the hell of it?

-What the hell were you thinking? -I know. I'm out of ideas.

We'll just have to do what she's doing in there. Sit and wait.

I've just come to... I've got a message for you.

I didn't see...just rushed in without thinking... didn't see the gun.

No, no, that was my fault, I should...

I know that you did exactly what you had to... they say I was lucky.

That I'll probably be able to walk again. But that's a long time off.

Maybe it's best that I go home to Karlstad anyway.

I'm going to be a vegetable for quite a while.

I'm going to need help with everything.

Kalle's willing to help, at least he says so.

Maja, I...

-Hello. -Yes?

No, it's like she only wants to speak with you. How was it with Maja?

-She's moving back to Karlstad. -Let's get on with the questioning.

Get help if necessary so we can see who gets tired first, her or us?

May God's eternal light shine on you, Karl Wallander. Rest in peace.

You've made a real good job of it, Schnapps instead of cake...

-He would have liked that. -But he was like that, wasn't he?

Are you off to a party?

No, I've just come from my father's funeral.

I'm sorry, I didn't know, my condolences.

Yes, time's going by and where is Thomas Andersson?

-Was he a good father? -Yes. He did as well as he could.

My mother was very young when she met my father...

She got pregnant straight away... But my father was what they call-

-a casual fling and he left her before I was born.

In those days it wasn't proper to have a baby before you were married-

-so Mum looked after me herself as best she could.

A few years later she met another man and got married-

-to my stepfather, the father I grew up with, who regularly-

-beat Mum, locked her up, threatened her and tortured her in other ways.

He made her believe that she was totally worthless.

She blamed herself for letting herself be beaten.

She remained convinced to the very end that she deserved no better.

Does that interest you? What kept her going was that she had me-

-and her job... she was a teacher, in a junior school...

Fascinating, isn't it?

And she loved children. She was desperate to have more herself.

I would have had a sister...

Ten years younger than me... but my stepfather-

-and one of his friends...

They forced Mum to have an abortion-

-and get rid of the child she wanted so much.

We stayed with him more than 20 years until he died-

-then Mum sold everything and started to travel, always on the go...

She travelled for fifteen years, eating and sleeping wherever she liked.

Then setting off again the next day-

-until at last she found something in a convent in Algeria.

Something that gave her joy and a sort of peace at last.

And then finally, just when for the first time- {phrase inside of another phrase}

-in her adult life she seemed happy, four foreign men come along-

-and put a stop to it. Then along came some more men-

-who decided to fix it so that the whole thing had never happened-

-to make it as if she had never existed.

I took it as a sign. I knew that it was time to start.

-Killing? -To start seeing that justice was done.

-And then? -You know that already, don't you.

Help me find Thomas Andersson?

There is a man in Algeria who murdered my mother-

-go look for him instead.

-Can I have a word? -What's up?

She's here now.

Give me a couple of minutes.

No. Take her back in.

Sit down.

Why does Thomas Andersson have to die?

-He deserves it. -His wife is alive, isn't she?

-And so is Katarina Taxell. -No, that's not really an answer is it?

There are some on my list who with luck, and I have to admit-

-some skill, managed to avoid killing their wives.

For example Eugen Blomberg and Thomas Andersson.

But they are just as guilty as Holger Eriksson and G�sta Runfeldt.

I'm right and you know it.

You can come in now.

-Yes, you know each other. -I am sorry but I don't remember?

Excuse me, it's been a long time since I last spoke Swedish. Krista...

Krista van Dank, before that Haberman.

There was a book, it was old, with the pages stuck together...

Left Sweden when her residence permit was going to be reviewed.

I was going down the stairs when I fell and landed on the knife, right there in my stomach.

Three children, two grandchildren.

Holger... He never hit anyone, he didn't hit me.

Why should she lie about that, thirty years later?

And with him already dead too.

In any case he didn't kill her.

You're right, I admit I made a mistake.

Mistake? You impaled an innocent man on sharpened bamboo stakes-

-and you call that a mistake?

That doesn't change a thing as far as Holger Eriksson is concerned.

And it doesn't change what the others did to their wives.

Where is Thomas Andersson?

I don't understand why you are wasting so much time on that bastard.

So that he can answer for what he has done in a court of law.

You and I both know that he is guilty and there is no mistake.

And the others on my list?

And the thousands of others that should be on it, where are they in your priorities?

My list could be as long as I want. You've got me now.

But somewhere out there is someone who will take over-

-where I left off and do you really believe that someone would have had to do this-

-if you and your colleagues had been doing their jobs properly?

We don't want your justice because that is no justice.

I just want to know where Thomas Andersson is!

Why don't you just admit that you don't really give a shit-

-about Thomas Andersson. You think he deserves to be where he is.

Who the hell do you think you are to put words into my mouth?

Or is this about something else?

Something personal? A missed promotion?

Or a weekend conference in Estonia that you don't want to miss...

Where is Thomas Andersson!?

You're on Thomas Andersson's side. That's what it is, you're on his side, aren't you?

Somewhere inside, you don't think he deserves this-

-because you think that it's all right in principle-

-to grab hold of the missus, hold her, beat her when she doesn't do what you want.

Shut up!

Thomas Andersson is in the bunker south of Kivik.

Hello, wait.

-What? -Is Kurt Wallander here?

Sure, but I don't know where he is.

Can I say hello for you?

No, we're just on our way, and just came to say hello.

-I think he's gone. -Hi Dad... What's the matter?

-Linda, I... -What's happened?

I am only going to say this once but if...

-you ever hurt a hair on my daughter's head...

Stop it! Dad!

We only wanted to say hello!

I'm sorry, Linda, I'm sorry. What the hell are you up to?

I know where he is.

-What did you say? -I know where he is.

Christ, this is where they lay, tied up for days.

What the hell is she doing here?

-Thomas, I'm sorry. Can I follow? -No.

-But I'm his wife. -[MISSING]

They are married. We rang to check.

Is she still denying everything?

There's nothing we can do about it.

What the hell are you doing here?

I was down at the station to hand in my resignation-

-and I was going round to say goodbye to everyone and when I-

-passed by Yvonne Anders' cell... I thought you might be in there.

Somehow she managed to get hold of a piece of glass and cut her wrist with it.

Oh Christ.

I found this there. It's for you.

Bloody madwoman.

-How can you be so sure? -She was, there's no doubt.

What happened to make her suddenly tell us where he was?

[I]To Wallander.[/I]

[I]If you are reading this then you know that I am dead.[/I]

[I]You know that you lied when you answered my third question. Not to me, but to yourself.[/I]

[I]You were willing to do anything to save Thomas Andersson.[/I]

[I]A man who beat and humiliated several women.[/I]

[I]Will you see to it that he is punished? And his wife, will you protect her?[/I]

[I]Wallander, you and I are alike.[/I]

[I]Loners... prepared to go to great lengths to see our justice done.[/I]

[I]Yours, Yvonne Ander.[/I]

[I]P.S. There's an unknown man in Algeria who killed my mother.[/I]

[I]Who's looking for him?[/I]

English text translated by Inspector-Wallander.org Last revised: 2005-03-22